Masses of believers are carrying a yoke Jesus never placed on their shoulders. It’s called Christian Perfectionism — a subtle doctrine of performance and anxious pressure that distorts grace, hinders love, fuels shame and turns faith into an exhausting campaign to be “just right” before God. And it’s everywhere: quietly infecting sermons, teaching, parenting, prayer life and the way believers talk to themselves all the time.
You relentlessly seek to get everything right. Yet you still feel like it’s never enough.You find yourself caught in the same exhausting cycle of trying harder, falling short, feeling anxious and ashamed, but trying harder again, until faith feels less like freedom and more like a performance review you can never pass.
In this honest and healing book, Mark DeJesus exposes Christian Perfectionism as a virus that hijacks faith and convinces you that God’s love and empowerment must be earned–where your standing before Him must be constantly fixed. Drawing on decades of pastoral experience, he names what so many Christians struggle with but aren’t able to identify.
Inside this book you will discover:
- What Christian Perfectionism actually looks like, how it hijacks our walk with God and why its influence is so sneaky.
- The patterns and mindsets of the CP virus, which perpetuates a “just right, but never enough” religious burden.
- What makes Christians vulnerable to perfectionism?
- The 12 types of Christian Perfectionists
You will learn:
- Address layers of your heart to open up healing and renewal.
- Learn to stop the compulsive “fixing” of yourself that distracts you from what you really need to experience.
- Learn how to relate to yourself, your weaknesses and even stress in renewed ways.
- Experience the love of the Father and the grace of Jesus Christ!
If you constantly feel the weight “just right, but never enough” in your Christian walk, you may be living under the influence of the CP virus. Today is your new step into freedom.

Chapter Titles:
Introduction: I’m a Recovering Christian Perfectionist
01: Hidden Bondage Everywhere
02: The Rise of Modern Christian Perfectionism
03: Discerning the Influence of Christian Perfectionism
04: The 12 Types of Christian Perfectionists
05: The Christian Perfectionist Crash Cycle
06: The Driving Forces of Christian Perfectionism
07: The Infection of Religious Leaven
08: The Stormy Waters of Shame Attacks
09: Healing the Heart of the Christian Perfectionist
10: Ending the Perfectionist Civil War
11: Healing Your Relationship with Weakness
12: The Power of Changing Yokes
13: The Stretching But Needed Path of Acceptance
14: Healing the Stress Response of a Christian Perfectionist
15: The Ongoing Healing, Freedom and Recovery
16: Renewing How You Relate to Others

